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title: That evening, when the princesses went upstairs to bed, he followed… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That evening, when the princesses went upstairs to bed, he followed them barefoot, so that he might make no noise, and hid himself under one of the twelve beds, so as not to take up much room. Who acts: princesses, Michael. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Prince
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 52

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That evening, when the princesses went upstairs to bed, he followed them barefoot, so that he might make no noise, and hid himself under one of the twelve beds, so as not to take up much room.

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**Who acts:** princesses, Michael · **What happens:** go, follow, make, hide, not take up · **To what, where:** bed, princesses, noise, Michael, much room

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:2:52
# text = That evening, when the princesses went upstairs to bed, he followed them barefoot, so that he might make no noise, and hid himself under one of the twelve beds, so as not to take up much room.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	barefoot	barefoot	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the princesses |  |  | bed | evening | upstairs *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Michael | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  | barefoot *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | might | Michael | no noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
| 4 | **hide** | past | the princesses *not said here* | Michael |  |  |  | under one of the twelve beds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under one=Location |
| 5 | **not** **take up** | to-infinitive |  | much room |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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